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by clon 9y ago

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQV2HASTArytCtxnJ5ML9iSeroJBGzgxNSPBB_CcVO56Ex0Lch14bXbJJE7 https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQV2HAS... I enjoy the joke about the perpetually shifting fusion acquisition time frame, but it would be fair to add that in terms of actual funding, we have been under the "fusion never" level. I feel like the context for the saying has always been that the proper financing assumption holds.

clon 9y ago
That said, the material sciences advances required, especially high temperature superconducting magnets, simply were not there in the 70s. So a moonshot project to achieve it may have been a failure at massive costs, discouraging humanity from fusion research for a long time.